Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

Mark T. Valites wrote: > How about shells other than bash? > > Is there a shell independant way of doing this? > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mark T. Valites wrote: i browsed a solaris sh man page, and i didn't find anything like $'...'. you can probably use something like $ ls > list then edit th

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

How about shells other than bash? Is there a shell independant way of doing this? On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mark T. Valites wrote: > Pietro, > > Thank you very much for the reply!!! > > THe --escape and -b are the same options, with the same output, but the > $'' was new to me & works. > > I have al

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

Pietro, Thank you very much for the reply!!! THe --escape and -b are the same options, with the same output, but the $'' was new to me & works. I have always though to completely understand shell quoting is to become one with the shell... Thanks!! On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: >

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

Mark T. Valites wrote: > Every once in a while, either a user somehow comes up with a file with > funky characters, or I create one by accident. When displayed through a > 'ls', the non-printable characters are displayed with "?"s. The "?"s are > not literal question marks, but just represent an

removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

Every once in a while, either a user somehow comes up with a file with funky characters, or I create one by accident. When displayed through a 'ls', the non-printable characters are displayed with "?"s. The "?"s are not literal question marks, but just represent an unprintable character. Withou